Hello cf,
I'm trying to solve this 0/1 Knapsack problem:
We have N items with each item characterized by weight, price and color (white, blue, red or black).
We have to choose 12 items with maximum total price such as the sum of their weights is <= W and the choosed items fullfill these conditions:
- only 1 white item
- between 3 and 5 blue items
- between 3 and 5 red items
- between 1 and 3 black items
I tried this backtracking solution (take or leave current item and continue) wich work fine:
This work fines but with an exponential complexity so I tried to add memoization (caching: dp[i][currWeight][numW][numBlue][numR][numBlack]) but it doesn't work anymore.
Can any body explain why the memoization doesn't work here, or share his personal approach to solve this problem ?
Costraints:
N <= 100 W <= 1000
PS I've seen this problem somewhere before but I don't have a link, can anybody provide a link of a similiar problems ?